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Re: How do I dual boot with two hard drives?

Re: How do I dual boot with two hard drives?

Another way to dual boot is to completely isolate one hard drive from the other. Take out one hard drive while you install BT on the other hard drive and vice versa. Then just use your F12 boot key to select the hard drive you want to boot. Very clean approach.

Re: How do I dual boot with two hard drives?

Originally Posted by alacrityathome

Another way to dual boot is to completely isolate one hard drive from the other. Take out one hard drive while you install BT on the other hard drive and vice versa. Then just use your F12 boot key to select the hard drive you want to boot. Very clean approach.

So how would I edit that to make it boot to BackTrack from the second hard drive?

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How I have my backtrack and windows 7 setup on my computer is I set the spare hard drive (d:\) that is going to be backtrack's disk as the first to be booted, and the windows hard drive to be the secondary (C:\). Then boot Backtrack LIVE CD ISO, and install backtrack to the spare hard drive (D:\). After you got Backtrack installed, it will boot to a screen with options, the first 2 options is to bring you to backtrack, the second to last option will say windows xp professional, but it'll just bring you to whatever windows you currently have installed. i think this is a safer way of running backtrack and windows in the same computer, rather than sharing a hard drive and partitioning it to run both windows and backtrack. It's very important that you set your bios to have the backtrack hard drive to be the first booted or else the windows hard drive will ignore backtrack and not even give you an option to choose which operating system you want to log into. Hope this helps, I kinda figure this stuff out myself. it wasn't too hard, but once you learn a little bit here and there, you'll learn to put all the puzzle pieces together to setup how you want your computer to be. I would send you a screen shot of what I am talking about but I have to turn off my computer to do it.